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@michael_j_black
VP Digital Human Research, Epic Games. Emeritus Director, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (@MPI_IS). Opinions are my own.
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A post argues that AI agents make research and testing easier, enabling more projects that eventually hit human bottlenecks.
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A post argues advisors learn to track each student's project and next steps amid office visits every 30–60 minutes.
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Michael Black proposes sharing prompts, code and demos without a traditional paper. A comment favors a short process to keep work relevant.
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A post praises work it describes as preserving contacts during the transfer, then using reinforcement learning to refine the motions.
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A user argues that Meta-FAIR’s Galactica faced a backlash that pushed its team to remove the demo, contrasting that with the enthusiastic welcome ChatGPT later received.
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Wayve says its AI Driver will reach future Mercedes-Benz vehicles starting within two years of the September 2026 announcement, marking its first integration in the premium segment.
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A New York Times opinion essay argues that people are giving away control of AI, rather than losing it.
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A researcher urges junior researchers to hone their writing and think carefully about what individual words mean and evoke in readers.
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An ICLR submitter cites the conference’s blog tally of 19,525 submissions at the start of the previous cycle. A reply raises concerns that faster AI-assisted research encourages quantity over depth.
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A user sees large-scale real2sim—bringing the real world into simulation—as within reach, noting how hard it once was to imagine OpenAI putting serious resources into 3D/4D.
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Former FTC chair Lina Khan argues dangerous AI releases can already trigger liability. Others question whether that prevents harm—or puts too much responsibility on the companies making the tools.
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Another post calls Astra, Fable and Muse’s zero-shot performance on robotics and world-model benchmarks a leap in progress, while saying it senses despair among academics.
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The project says VIGA can build scenes in Blender from basic geometric shapes and can also use 3D asset-generation tools such as Meshy or SAM-3D.
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The post points to harness-design research as a way to improve performance, highlighting Graph-as-Policy (GaP), which it says was accepted to CoRL.
